February 13, 2023
Professor Daniel Medwed's book, Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison,was selected for a 2023 Top Social Justice/Advocacy Book Award by In the Margins, which chooses the best books that illuminate issues of race, class and incarceration or highlight the reality of BIPOC and others living in the margins of society.
February 13, 2023
"If health equity is to be achieved, those with influence within the legal system must understand how their actions affect health," writes Professor Wendy Parmet, Northeastern Law's Director of the Center for Health Policy and Law, and Elaine Marshall, Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Salus Populi, in this Bill of Health blog.
February 10, 2023
“If I were the D.A., I would be reticent to charge this as murder — it feels misaligned with our current understanding of mental health, and misaligned with the public reaction,” said Professor Daniel Medwed in The New York Times.
February 10, 2023
“The adoption of this amendment means that the Senate will be on equal footing with all the other branches of our government,” Senate President Karen Spilka ’80 said. “I am grateful to my colleagues for recognizing the importance of this initiative.”
February 09, 2023
Congratulations to Raquel Webster ‘03 and Desiree Murphy ’13 for being named one of Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly's In-House Leaders 2023. In-House Leaders are general counsel and staff attorneys who are nominated by their colleagues, clients and other legal professionals for being leaders in the in-house community and forward thinkers.
February 08, 2023
"The heroine in this tragedy is RowVaughn Wells, Tyre Nichols’ mom. Surely her trauma is the worst trauma I can imagine suffering. And yet, she is praying for the officers who killed her son," said Professor Deborah Ramirez, co-director of Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) in the Daily Herald.
February 08, 2023
Joseph Feaster ’75, an attorney, former president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, and current member of the city’s Black Men & Boys Commission, will serve as the chair of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's new Reparations Task Force. “We are looking forward to determining recommendations for how we reckon with Boston’s past while charting a path forward for Black people whose ancestors labored without compensation and who were promised the 40 acres and a mule they never received,” said Feaster in Boston.com.
February 08, 2023
"As abortion issues play out in state courts, state court judges will need to get comparative law right and identify the flaws in findings like those in the Mississippi law," writes Professor Martha Davis in the Brennan Center for Justice. "The fact is that post-Dobbs, it is the draconian abortion restrictions adopted in many states that are the international outliers."
February 07, 2023
Northeastern Law is a top 10 law school for women, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company recently named the school to its list of Best Law Schools for 2023. Northeastern is ranked No. 10 for Greatest Resources for Women based on the percent of the student body who are women and student answers to a survey question on whether all students are afforded equal treatment by students and faculty regardless of their gender.
February 06, 2023
To honor the legacy of the late Massachusetts Chief Justice Ralph Gants, diverse students across the commonwealth now have access to stipends for co-ops or internships with state judges. The first two students awarded Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Judicial Scholarships are Northeastern Law students Nadia Eldemery ’24, who will intern with First Justice Helen Brown Bryant in Suffolk County Juvenile Court, and Hui Chen ’23, who will intern with Justice Elspeth Cypher at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
February 06, 2023
Congratulations to US District Court Judge Victoria Roberts ’76, who retires from the bench in September. The only Black woman to serve as president of the Michigan Bar Association, she leaves behind a legacy of advocacy for equality, justice and truth, according to the Detroit Free Press.
February 03, 2023
“The questions [PEIA faces] are the same, I think as what we faced 30 years ago, but the magnitude of them may be worse,” said Emily Spieler, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a founding member of PEIA’s ( Public Employees Insurance Agency) Finance Board in the 1990s.